Jar with burnished red slip

Object Details

• Description

  Jar with elongated narrow neck and pouch-shaped mouth defined by three tiers of horizontal relief ribs at shoulder, mid-neck, and rim; coarse yellowish clay coated with red earth and burnished in verical stripes on the neck.

• Inscriptions

  1. (L.A. Cort, 1982) The new box that accompanies this jar bears the following inscriptions on the lid:

  (front) Yayoi tsubo ...... tan nuri (Yayoi narrow-necked jar ... red painted)

• Label

  This elegant jar with its understated decoration, including vertical stripes polished into the red coating, is typical of jars thought to have been made for ritual rather than practical purposes. Most jars of the type are excavated from burial sites and seem to have been used in the burial rites. They are found only in northern Kyushu and western Honshu. This jar came from the Jonoharu site within the modern city of Fukuoka.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Japanese Ceramics: from Past to Present (February 18, 1983 to December 16, 1984)

  Japanese Ceramics from Past to Present (February 18, 1983 to February 16, 1984)

• Origin

  Jonoharu site, Fukuoka city, Fukuoka prefecture, Japan

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Vessel

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Place

  Fukuoka prefecture, Japan, Fukuoka city, Jonoharu site

• Topic

  Art, Yayoi ware, Sugu type, Japanese Art, Pottery, Ceramics, Yayoi period (400 B.C.E - 250 CE), Red slip

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)